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There are 2 Items with the name "Tank", making them undistinguishable on import

Open KevinCCucumber opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

There is the clothing item tank and also the furniture item tank, breaking the function to parse the list of item names to get its contents. Adding an additonal api output, like e.g. unique IDs from the ACNH spreadsheet could solve this problem for non-variant items.

However, I currently have no idea how this issue could be solved.

KevinCCucumber avatar Feb 19 '22 23:02 KevinCCucumber

Are these both from Catalog scan? Which tabs/sections are they from? Note that CatalogScanner is also only scanning text, so it can't tell them apart either, though I assume from the context it could infer it. But then, the same could be true of whatever loads the items.

Changing how the API words would probably be just as much work for apps to implement.

Is it possible to have both "tanks" in the same list? I don't think so right since they are in different categories.

EhsanKia avatar Feb 20 '22 02:02 EhsanKia

Tank Furniture (Housewares): image Tank Clothing (Tops): image

Since scanning the normal catalog should contain cothing as well as furniture, there will most likely be 2 tank items right next to each other in the list, making it indistinguishable from each other if its the cloth or the piece of furniture. Just having the name "tank" in the list could mean any of these 2 items.

KevinCCucumber avatar Feb 20 '22 20:02 KevinCCucumber

Hmm, interesting. I'm curious, do you have such a video / screenshot showing both of them side by side?

EhsanKia avatar Feb 20 '22 21:02 EhsanKia

I dont own the items. I may take some time to get a screenshot

KevinCCucumber avatar Feb 22 '22 16:02 KevinCCucumber